Growing up in the family retail drugstore business, I wasfascinated by the emergence of “category killers” in the 80's and90's and followed their growth very closely. As I drive bytheir stores today and see their ongoing liquidations, and leasesbeing auctioned, I am reminded me of a book that I read in 2005titled “Category Killers – The retail revolution and its impact onconsumer culture”. I thought it a good time to pull it off myshelf and skim it over.
In 2005, the “category killers”, or “big box” retailers, wereall the rage and their growth seemed unstoppable. The bookchronicled the growth of these chains, crediting the birth ofcategory killers to when Charles Lazarus converted his fathers bikeshop in 1923 to what would become Toys R Us.
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